Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

xpost Well that's timing, as it were.

Yeah...timing indeed.

The long-ailing sultan has no children or named successors. A sealed letter naming the next ruler is in Muscat. The sultan played a crucial role mediating among various regional rivals incl. Iran, Saudi, Qatar, Yemen. Will the next sultan be able to do the same? #Oman https://t.co/LQI3nJ9yvx

— Rania Abouzeid (@Raniaab) January 11, 2020

poch in

The Sultan of Oman

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/11/sultan-of-oman-dies-state-media-announces

Oh whoops, as you said

RIP Ivan Passer - fwiw, Intimate Lighting is available from Second Run:

https://www.secondrundvd.com/release_intimate.html

after all i know who Frankie Howerd and Norman Wisdom were (kinda)

Norman Wisdom appeared in a William Friedkin film - The Night They Raided Minsky's - and Frankie Howerd is in The Ladykillers, so I would expect a cineaste of yr distinction to know their work, Morbs!

At the risk of infuriating Morbz

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51064069

Singing My Big Kilmarnock Bunnet right now in tribute

The poet Roddy Lumsden

https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid=1006

At the risk of infuriating Morbz

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51064069

Singing My Big Kilmarnock Bunnet right now in tribute

― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Saturday, January 11, 2020 3:57 PM (twenty-five minutes ago)bookmarkflaglink

RIP

Fowks ye thocht were deid.

Though their popularity had peaked, the duo enjoyed a long touring career. They toured Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. They appeared at the Sydney Opera House with Jimmy Shand as a guest, and also played in Carnegie Hall in New York City. A famous fan was Charlton Heston, who regularly saw them in Los Angeles.[3]

Wonder if he was also a Bright Eyes fan

Oh no, Roddy Lumsden? He was so young.

"The brothers, who were awarded MBEs in 2004, had their first hit single in 1964 with Nobody's Child which sold more than The Beatles in Scotland"

A particularly poor selling album, unlike "The Beatles in Italy"

the Please Please Me from Bari is straight fire

And now we’d like to do a number dedicated to a very special lady in the audience tonight, Bari’s mum.

It’s hard to understand just how popular act like the Alexander Brothers were in Scotland. My Grandparents (and, to a lesser extent, my Dad) loved that stuff. Any charity shop in Scotland will have four or five Alexander Brothers albums. RIP.

Natalie Trundy, who appeared in all four '70s sequels to Planet of the Apes

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/natalie-trundy-dead-actress-four-planet-apes-movies-was-79-1266487

RIP. Was just watching Beneath last night, and was a bit surprised to hear Barney Miller’s James Gregory as the gorilla who says “The only good human is a dead human!”

Oh yeah, Barney Miller’s Gregory Sierra too.

I suspect I saw Gregory as a gorilla before Barney Miller (or The Manchurian Candidate)

Yeah, me too

Roger Scruton

https://t.co/IRxRn0h5SU

— Roger Scruton (@Roger_Scruton) January 12, 2020

tbf he looked dead a month ago. good riddance old bigoted piece of shit. I'm sure there will be a nazi aesthete section of hell where he won't be allowed in for eternity!

at least he got his medal off Viktor Obarn for services to neo-fascism before he snuffed it.

https://t.co/TEZwCeeAD8 pic.twitter.com/AcrA86bTkz

— Loki Belmont (@Lokinash06) January 12, 2020

RIP Sir Roger Scruton, a man of immense courage, intellect and fortitude, whose loss we can ill afford in these narrow, conformist times.

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) January 12, 2020

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Peter Hitchens is bad again.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOGhxSVWkAA6vIT?format=jpg&name=medium

hounded to his death by those PC thugs at NS :(

Genuinely trying to figure out why Loki's published a picture of a guy I know with the title 'Frisson' and no other context.

Scrotum descending as we speak

The New Statesman is good again.

xxp

'aven't a bloody clue tbh. But it is a pic of a male pattern baldy and he was posting stuff about hair being overrated earlier.

guess it's the last chance to share this, the final iteration of the "20th century music is all bad" great-great-great-grandfather of rockism

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34801885

I saw him speak at a sixth form politics conference in the mid 90s, he was easily the worst person there, and peter lilley was also on the bill

Roger’s crouton finally dissolves back into the soup of non-being

what a loss

Genuinely trying to figure out why Loki's published a picture of a guy I know with the title 'Frisson' and no other context.

who is it?

I think the picture is supposed to be the person behind a really horrendous account who’s been banned multiple times for harassment and is a colossal transphobe. He spends all his time online ranting about Owen Jones & even tweeted “Jussie Smollett” when OJ was talking about being assaulted. I think it’s him going by the context of other Loki tweets and the “frisson” caption is a reference to his goodreads page?

pic.twitter.com/wT2dwn9fSI

— Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. (@dismalplaces) January 12, 2020

he must be related to Scruton by at least a degree or two of separation so totally on topic!

Tony Garnett

After a short illness, Tony Garnett, the legendary TV & Film Producer and founder of World Productions, died around midday on January 12.
Tony was a great man and an inspirational producer who will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him.

— World Productions (@worldprods) January 12, 2020

Born in Birmingham, Garnett lost his parents when young: his mother died when he was five from the after effects of a back-street abortion, and his father committed suicide nineteen days later.

Ouch.

Handgun is a bit of a curio from the VHS rental era - it never clicked with me until now that the older star of that movie was Agent Sanseverino in The Sopranos.

bad typing!

Handgun was quite a serious sort of a serious feminist movie but it seemed to be marketed as a female Death Wish at the time

Very interesting career Tony Garnett had. RIP.

In the 1980s, Roger Scruton organized money and books for dissidents in Eastern Europe. I was one of the student couriers who helped smuggle them "across the iron curtain." I am still grateful for what Roger did for them, and for me.

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) January 12, 2020

there might have been toilet roll shortages at the time tbf.

anyone want to explain to the Americans who the fuck Roger scrotun was